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Get Data, a Excel Doc located on a webpage
Hi all,
I am trying to import an excel file located on a web page. At the moment I am saving the excel doc and loading into Power BI.
Is there any way I can import this directly from the webpage?
Thank you in advance!
http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/[email protected]/DetailsPage/6427.0Dec%202017?OpenDocument
Hi Kristan,
Are you using chrome or firefox? I recommend you to use browser with development tools to achieve the link address.
Regards,
Jimmy Tao
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Hi Kristan,
To achieve your requirement, please follow steps below:
1.Open this website, right click on the excel icon, then click inspect.
2.Right click on the html element below, then click Copy link address.
3.Open power bi, click Get Data->Web, paste link address here and click OK.
The result is like below:
Regards,
Jimmy Tao
Thanks Jimmy, could you paste the full html element? I must be doing something wrong, the results I get are:
Hi Kristan,
Are you using chrome or firefox? I recommend you to use browser with development tools to achieve the link address.
Regards,
Jimmy Tao
